"Girl, does the Lin Family know about this?"
"They don’t know, and I also don’t know how to tell them. There are many things I don’t understand myself, which is why I asked about Dad and Mom today." Shangguan You couldn’t help but sigh. She was unsure whether revealing Lin ngjie’s situation was right or wrong, as she always felt that no matter how she explained it, the matter was shrouded in strangeness.
"Dad, you should first take a look at which one of them is the real Mom," said Shangguan You, and with that, her entire figure vanished from the living room.
"AH." The crowd exclaid in shock, staring blankly as Shangguan You’s form disappeared on the spot.
"Dad, I’m now inside the space, so you can’t see ," Shangguan You’s voice ca out of thin air, her presence unseen.
Faced with the reality before their eyes, even if the people present didn’t want to believe it, they had no choice but to accept everything Shangguan You had said.
"Dad, please move aside a bit. I will bring Mom out," Shangguan You spoke. A rainbow light flashed, and then a transparent Crystal Coffin appeared before everyone’s eyes. Shangguan You’s figure reappeared before them.
"What, what is this?" Shangguan Hao looked incredulously at the Crystal Coffin laid before them. Through the coffin, he saw Lin ngjie inside, her eyes shut, her expression strained. He had initially been sitting, but now he stood up excitedly and walked over to the Crystal Coffin.
"Dad, this is the Crystal Coffin I snatched from Shen Po. This is the Mom I found with Ouyang Xuan. The two of them look exactly the sa; even their clothes are identical," Shangguan You pointed at the Lin ngjie inside the Crystal Coffin, as well as the other Lin ngjie enveloped by Spiritual Energy.
"ngjie? How can this be?" Liu Ruoling spoke with disbelief, looking at the two Lin ngjies before her.
"I also don’t know why there are two identical Lin ngjies," Shangguan You shook her head. She also didn’t know why. If she knew, she would have already found a way to save them. But she was powerless.
"Let see." Shangguan Hao’s voice trembled slightly, even carrying a hint of nervousness. His slightly calloused hand gently stroked Lin ngjie’s face. Cold, still so cold. If it weren’t for the faint breath from her nostrils, he would have been certain that the Lin ngjie before him was a corpse, not a living person.
Shangguan Hao looked at the Lin ngjie enveloped in Spiritual Energy and took a deep breath. The way he looked at her was as if he were gazing at a lover.
"Girl, open the Crystal Coffin. I want to see the ngjie inside."
"Alright, Dad." Shangguan You waved her hands gently. The lid of the Crystal Coffin slid aside, and the figure of the other Lin ngjie once again ca into clear view for everyone to see.
Shangguan Hao’s gaze fixed tightly on the two Lin ngjies, observing their identical appearances, identical clothing, and even their identical auras. If not for the fact that there were two people, they would have thought they were one and the sa.
They both matched the figure in his mory. As he looked at the familiar faces before him, Shangguan Hao slowly superimposed the two figures onto the image from his mory and muttered, "ngjie, is it you? Is it really you?"
"They are both ngjie, both of them are ngjie," Liu Ruoling mumbled, her tone urgent and even carrying a hint of a tremble. They looked the sa as they did seventeen years ago. She herself had aged, but Lin ngjie hadn’t changed at all—not even her hairstyle or clothes.
"Auntie, do you know sothing that we don’t?" Shangguan You asked, looking at Liu Ruoling, whose face was filled with emotion, and recalling the oddities whenever Liu Ruoling ntioned Lin ngjie in the past.
"I don’t know either. Seventeen years ago, after Lin ngjie gave birth to you, I stayed with ngjie for a while. She handed you over to my care, told to treat you as my own daughter, and explicitly said not to tell the Shangguan Family about her situation. Then, Lin ngjie fell into a coma. The doctors couldn’t explain why she was comatose or when she would wake up."
"That day, ngjie handed you over to . I watched her fall into the coma. However, I had only left with you for a little while when I returned to the ward, and she was awake. She had even forgotten the instructions she gave and had completely forgotten that I had just been in her ward."
"I saw ngjie leave with Ouyang Xuan, and after that, she was often seen close with Ouyang Xuan at the Lin Family. As for the Shangguan Family, she truly distanced herself. Even the tis she saw you were few and far between. Later, she completely disappeared from our sight, and Lin ngjie never returned, not even to see you."
"Because I promised ngjie, I didn’t tell anyone about ngjie’s strange behavior in the hospital that day, not even you. And after that, ngjie never treated the sa as before. We almost completely lost contact," Liu Ruoling recounted the events that had taken place in the hospital all those years ago.
"Auntie, that makes sense. Mom was injured by Young Master Ye back then. She must have fallen into a deep sleep then. The Lin ngjie you all saw was an imposter Ouyang Xuan found, or perhaps an illusion he created to deceive you. It’s possible that figure never even existed," Shangguan You sighed deeply. Now she finally understood how helpless Ouyang Xuan must have felt back then.
"What is Ouyang Xuan’s identity?" Shangguan Hao’s brows furrowed, his expression filled with pain. Seventeen years! A whole seventeen years! Lin ngjie had kept this from him for so long. She had faced a powerful enemy like Young Master Ye all on her own? And another man had stayed by ngjie’s side for seventeen years, an entire seventeen years? What had he missed all this ti?
"Ouyang Xuan is Zhuge Feng. He and Mom t because of the Five Spirit Pearls..." Shangguan You spoke once more about how Zhuge Feng and Mom had t. Zhuge Feng himself had told her these things, so they were undoubtedly true.
"Uncle Zhuge once said that from the mont Mom fell into a coma, he had been traveling the world with her, looking for dicinal herbs that could awaken her. But even after seventeen years, Mom still hadn’t woken up. He had preserved her body under the best conditions, placing her on an ice bed and even using his own Spiritual Energy to sustain her life bit by bit. Yet, despite all his efforts, Mom’s life was reaching its end; she now had only a few months left at most."
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